From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:50256 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767506AbXCITTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:19:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:00:51 +0100 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls. Message-ID: <20070309190051.GA20521@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1173394873.3461.510.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070309163805.GV18564@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070309163805.GV18564@lug-owl.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen , David Woodhouse , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Not everybody has a simple indexed list of pointers :) For example, > for vax-linux, we use a struct per syscall with the expected number of > on-stack longwords for the call. > > So if something "new" is coming up, please keep in mind that it should > be flexible enough to represent that. :) Are there plans to merge vax any time soon to mainline? Normally we don't care very much about out of tree code, especially if it adds complexity like this. But I suspect s390 would need number of arguments anyways. -Andi